Palestine Legal, NLG’s Free Palestine Sub-Committee, and the NLG’s Mass Defense Committee invite you to join us for an opportunity to connect with other attorneys, legal workers, and law students working to support Palestine advocates. This will be a loosely structured space to build community with people already deeply engaged in this work as well as those who are interested in getting more involved.

DATE/TIME:
Friday November 1, 2024 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT

LOCATION:
Skipworth Ballroom

Sponsored by the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism.

The NLG was a co-sponsor of the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures. Following the verdict of the tribunal -- and the US-backed genocide in Gaza -- it is more urgent than ever to put that verdict into practice through both litigation and a popular campaign. This major panel will discuss the effects of sanctions in Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine (with a particular focus on Gaza), Haiti, and nations around the world, as well as the resistance in these countries. It will also serve as a major launching and promotion point for the new campaign to involve Guild chapters, students, and a mass movement in confronting US imperialism through directly challenging sanctions and blockades.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday October 31, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm CDT

LOCATION:
Skipworth 1

Approved for 1 General CLE credit through the Alabama State Bar.

Sponsored by the Alabama NLG Chapter.

There has been a growing movement across the South to remove or remove monuments to the Confederacy or to place them in historic context. Many have been removed, many more remain and many defend them. Alabama has passed a "Monument Preservation Act," making it unlawful to remove or alter monuments, schools, streets, etc. This panel will discuss both political advocacy and potential litigation around Confederate monuments and how the two can augment each other.

CLE Materials Attached: 
1) Amicus Project Say Something and NLG
2) Monument Preservation Act research
3) Pleasant Grove City v. Summum
4) Progressive Magazine Article
5) State v. City of Birmingham

DATE/TIME:
Sunday November 3, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm CST

LOCATION:
Virtual

Approved for 1 General CLE credit through the Alabama State Bar.

Prison and detention litigation often involves matters of life and death, public policy, and major local, state, and federal expenditures. It is far too common that critical evidence and rulings about such matters are kept from public disclosure via protective orders and orders to seal. In this workshop, facilitators will discuss the scope and predominance of non-public filings in prison litigation; explore the reasons why practitioners often acquiesce to secrecy; offer insight into how such information, if made public, can be useful to movements and the media; and share practical guidance to litigators seeking to maximize transparency. The workshop will highlight recent efforts to unseal court records in a prison conditions case against the federal Bureau of Prisons as a case study (California Coalition for Women Prisoners v. BOP). Written materials will include sample briefs and a model protective order. Finally, workshop participants will practice crafting sample protective order provisions aimed at maximizing access to matters of public interest while fervently protecting litigants' sensitive personal information.

CLE Materials Attached:

1. Motion to Intervene in a case California Coalition for Women Prisoners, et al v. Bureau of Prisons, et al (Doc. 316)
2. Motion to Unseal court records in the same case (Doc. 317)
3. Declaration of correctional expert ISO motion to unseal in same case (Doc. 328)
4. Hernandez v. Cnty. of Monterey, No. 13-CV-02354-BLF, 2023 WL 4688522 (N.D. Cal. July 21, 2023) (denying request to seal in their entirety neutral monitor reports in jail conditions case)
5. Hernandez v. Cnty. of Monterey, No. 13-CV-02354-BLF, 2023 WL 5418753  (N.D. Cal. Aug. 21, 2023) (granting a motion to intervene by community newspaper, a nonprofit, and family of people who died at the jail for the limited purpose of moving to unseal court records)
6. Braggs v. Dunn, No. 14-cv-601, 382 F.Supp.3d 1267 (M.D. Ala. Jan. 2, 2019) (holding those reports showing correctional understaffing in Alabama prisons should be publicly accessible following a five-month period under seal)
7. Privacy Act Order and Protective Order in Ortiz, et al v. Orange County, New York, et al
8. A model protective order – not specific to prison conditions

DATE/TIME:
Sunday November 3, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm CST

LOCATION:
Virtual